Researching Language and Culture: Methodology

Linguistic Anthropologists draw on an eclectic mixture of research methods. 

• Participant Observation
• Interviews
• Surveys and questionnaires
• Naturally Occurring Conversations
• overhearing
• media
• Experimental Methods
• Guising and Matched-Guise tests
• Peer Interviewing and the Observer's Bias
• Linguistic Insecurity Tests (measuring hyper-correction)
• Attitudinal Surveys
• Conversational analysis
• CA
• Goffman
• Ethical Considerations
• ethical obligation to the people that they study
• informed consent
• reciprocity